AFI Goodness

Friends,

The title does not refer to the whiny-gothy pop-punk band that has been around for years longer than their moderate popularity would suggest. No, I am talking about the American Film Institutes. I like AFI because they make those Top 100 all-time lists to tick people off. (I mean, honestly, have you ever seen Yankee Doodle Dandy and thought it was better than say, Bull Durham?) Anyways, I got to thinking about the power of mustache and how it relates to film. Nowadays, not too many of the Hollywood hunkmeisters are rocking the mustache. Not to say it isn't en vogue. I think the most recent GQ (or one of those men magazines, my brother-in-law told me and I can't remember the title right now) has an article about the mustache and its glory (though the article is in direct reference to that jerkass from the Killers and his pornostatche). Anyways, I looked up the Top 100 films of all time according to the American Film Institute. And, to my unsurprise, I found out the reason why each film earned it's position. I present them to you in climatic order with a still of evidence for your viewing pleasure (I think it's pretty obvious from the pictures what I'm trying to say):

5. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA









4. GONE WITH THE WIND


3. THE GODFATHER


2. CASABLANCA


1. CITIZEN KANE



Mustache, mustache, mustache. OoooEeee...make no mistake that mustaches led the greatest films ever made by Americans. It's right there, in color & black+white photography, more factual evidence than you'll get out of a 101 argument paper. I probably could have gone down the list even further...Number 6 is Wizard of Oz...and that Oz has a mustache. Number 7? The Graduate? Gotta be a mustache in that one. Believe it friends: mustaches make movies better. That's all there is to it.

VIVA EL MUSTACHE!!!